Laqueur lived in the area that would become Israel from 1938 to 1953. After one year at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he joined a Kibbutz and worked as an agricultural laborer from 1939 to 1944.[1] In 1944, he moved to Jerusalem, where he worked as a journalist until 1953, covering Palestine and other countries in the Middle East.[1]

Russia and Germany: A Century of Conflict, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1965

1914: The Coming of the First World War, co-edited with George L. Mosse, New York: Harper & Row, 1966

Education and Social Structure in the Twentieth Century, co-edited with George L. Mosse, New York: Harper & Row, 1967

The Fate of the Revolution: Interpretations of Soviet History, London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1967

The Road to Jerusalem: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1967, New York: Macmillan, 1968 (published in the UK as The Road to War, 1967: The Origins of the Arab-Israel Conflict, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1969)